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Lydia
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Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification.
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.”
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“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
“We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.”
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Between The Wines Bookclub
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This is a bookclub I started with a few of my friends. We drink wine and read books. We watch the movies of books we've read, we attend wine festivals ...more
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